Mariam Z., a 29-year-old product manager with a tech company, started using the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT as soon as it came out in November 2022. The Open AI tool quickly became the fastest-growing consumer software application in history, reaching over 100 million users in two months. Now it engages 800 million users weekly. “I believe I have an emotional bond with ChatGPT. I get empathy and safety from it,” she says. ChatGPT is a type of generative artificial intelligence...